Crarification about Religion (was: Re: [OSLIST] Opening a Space for Peace in Burundi & Central Africa
Joelle Lyons Everett
JLEShelton at aol.com
Sun Jan 16 22:29:23 PST 2005
In a message dated 1/16/05 3:45:09 PM, arturfsilva at yahoo.com writes:
> Now, in what concerns science, at least in the conceptions of science that
> I cherish (Popper, Khun, Feyerabend,...) there is no absolute "truth" one
> can be in contact with - there are only relative truths, that will be bypassed
> one day. And the work of science (or philosophy, for that matter) is always
> to try "to dis-confirm" the accepted truths of the moment.
>
Artur--
I agree with you on this. But I do see many people taking a current (or
past) scientific concept as an article of faith. And as you pointed out, that
leads to fruitless arguments.
<<What concerns me is when some "truth" is imposed by way of killing or
imprisoning all the opponents...>>
Unfortunately, there seems to be a lot of this going on in the world today .
. . and in maybe every time. I wish it were not so.
Joelle
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